Re: ala removing mercury from brain ?

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The way I view this is that anything I do represents taking a personal chance

based on the best information I can find and the safest means I can find to do

so. In dealing with insidious mercury, there is controversy in everything, and

every body has a different set of metal concentrations and coinciding weakness.

What's worse, most people passing judgment on it have no experience of what it

means to live with mercury toxicity and attempts to rid the body of it. I don't

see chelation of any type as an exact science. Most of medicine & healing

systems throughout history never have been.

I have a naturopath/DO who prefers intravenous EDTA chelation, which she's

been doing for 15 years and is unaware of any patients suffering ill effects.

When I visited her earlier this week to consult on my decision to start frequent

dosing with DMSA, later adding in ALA, I explained to her that I have chosen

this route because I've suffered too many ill effects throughout my life as a

result of mistakes made in medical & dental care. She understands I have to do

this on my own. I told her that if anything backfires, such as a return of

dementia symptoms or definitive onset of Alzheimer's, I cannot bear having a

sense of blame toward her or any other medical professionals because of yet one

more treatment someone else administered to me. (For what it's worth, I think

it's really important we share sentiments like this with our doctors. They will

respect and honor this if they're worth their licensing.)

She was well aware of ALA's use in chelation. She was also supportive of my

choices and is willing to do the follow up with me and learn from my experience

with this. If I'm successful, she will have another alternative to offer her

patients. She welcomed literature on Andy's books, too, and I hope she'll have

the interest and the time to purchase sets herself.

The way I look at this, Val, is that this program is giving us a chance to

further improve when we otherwise would not have one. If ALA doesn't remove

mercury from my brain and restore neurohormonal & metabolic functions, I don't

have a lot to lose. I've been crippled in multiple, horrible ways and am held

together with many different interventions that we won't be able to continue

with year after year.

As to your meeting, I'd looked into chelation for two years, unware that much

information was out there beyond what was available from mercury-free dentistry.

That was a big mistake. At this point, I really don't feel I can rely on

information from dentists, whose perspective and realm of study is from the

teeth. My own dentist, a wonderful guy trained by Hal Huggins, was very

misleading and terribly underinformed when it comes to the physiological

processes of chelation. I'm working with the office to help them understand how

critical it is to their practice to get chronically ill patients steered in the

right direction post-amalgam removal, but I'm also the guinea pig for our area

in this slow process. Their background is not adequate for a person with

long-term, chronic poisoning, affecting physiological processes of the body on a

molecular level. We need physicians understanding biochemistry & biophysics who

are committed to this.

It makes me sad that you and the rest of us have trouble feeling completely

confident in any form of treatment, but progress comes from those of us willing

to do something about our health and take chances. In that respect, we're very

fortunate to have the opportunity to try ALA in a safer manner and perhaps our

experiences will become foundations for broadening, effective treatment for more

& more people.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who will comment on this, but 'double-blind'

studies on ALA were probably not performed using frequent-dosing methods. ALA

as typically administered is often dangerous & 'stirs the pot' for chronic

mercury toxic people. Even my EDTA chelation trained doctor knew that. It's

probably helped in some acute poisoning cases.

Joanne

seashell_555 seashell_555@...> wrote:

I don't want to stir the pot - but I just got back from my mercury-

free dentist appt and he said double-blind studies have been done on

ala and they did not show that it removed mercury from the brain.

I go back in about 3 wks and I'd like to tell him that YES, it does

remove mercury from the brain but I'd like to say how this is known.

I did tell him that the brief time I used ala I felt enormous relief

from mental symptoms - mood lift, no adhd, and my breathing improved.

Then the redistribution set in and I got very anxious, moody etc etc.

Any comments?

Val

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